APUSH American Pageant 16th Edition Chapter 17 Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy

In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the United States was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of

49°.

During the debate in Congress over President Polk's requested congressional declaration of war against Mexico, the Polk administration was frequently called on by ____to respond to "spot resolutions", demanding to know where American blood had been shed to provoke the war.

Abraham Lincoln

During an 1837 Canadian rebellion against Britain

America was unlawfully invaded by the British.

Arrange in chronological order the United States' acquisition of (A) Oregon, (B) Texas, and (C) California.

B, A, C

Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) Bear Flag revolt, (B) Slidell mission rejected, (C) declaration of war on Mexico, and (D) American troops ordered to the Rio Grande Valley.

B, D, C, A

When the Mexican government secularized authority in California

Californios eventually gained control of the land from the Franciscan missions.

The area in dispute between the United States and Great Britain in 1845 lay between the

Columbia River, the forty-ninth parallel, and the Pacific Ocean.

Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) annexation of Texas, (B) Webster-Ashburton Treaty, (C) settlement of the Oregon boundary, and (D) Aroostook War.

D, B, A, C

The only member of President Tyler's Whig cabinet who did not resign in protest over his policies was

Daniel Webster.

When northwesterners questioned why all of Texas was annexed but not all of Oregon, Oregon settlement supporters such as Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri responded that

Great Britain was a far more powerful nation than Mexico.

The earliest known use of the term Manifest Destiny was in 1845 by

John L. O'Sullivan.

In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called

Manifest Destiny.

____ represented the group in North America that expressed the most vigorous support for the United States gaining political control of all of the Oregon Country.

Northern Democrats

Which of the following represents an accurate description of the response by Americans generally or a subsection of Americans to the Oregon settlement with Great Britain?

Northwestern states joined with antislavery forces in the North to condemn the pact.

The first Old World Europeans to come to California were

Spanish

The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848), ending the Mexican War, included

United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico.

Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of

a joint resolution enacted by a simple majority in the House and the Senate rather than the two-thirds constitutional supermajority required of all treaties with foreign nations.

The Aroostook War was

a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Californios? a. The Californios found themselves consistently at the lowest rungs of California society, even below the Indians, during the early to mid-1800s. b. They were descendants of the Spanish and Mexican conquerors who had once ruled California. c. The political and economic power and social status of the Californios received a major boost when Mexico's "secularization" program eroded the substantial power of the Franciscan missions and their leading priests. d. The Californios saw their social status and economic and political power significantly eroded following the American victory in the Mexican War. e. In terms of social and political status, they deferred to the very powerful Franciscan missionaries until Mexico overthrew Spanish rule in 1821.

a. The Californios found themselves consistently at the lowest rungs of California society, even below the Indians, during the early to mid-1800s.

Those people most adamantly opposed to President James K. Polk's expansionist program in Oregon, Texas and the Southwest were the

abolitionists.

In the presidential election of 1844, the Whig candidate, Henry Clay

alienated both proponents and opponents of annexing Texas by issuing seemingly contradictory written statements about his view on annexing Texas.

The Californios' political ascendancy in California ended

as a result of the influx of Anglo gold-diggers and the waning of the pastoral economy.

All of the following were legacies of the U.S. war with Mexico, except a. the war resulted in a negative turning point in U.S. relations with Latin America. b. Latin America solidified their friendly relations with the U.S. government. c. Mexicans have never forgotten that the U.S. tore away about half of their country. d. it reinvigorated the slavery issue and debates about extending slavery in the territories and newly admitted states in the United States. e. roughly 13,000 American soldiers died, mostly from disease.

b. Latin America solidified their friendly relations with the U.S. government.

In 1846, the United States went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except a. the ideology of Manifest Destiny. b. the impulse to satisfy Congressman Abraham Lincoln and similar political allies in Congress to enact the so-called "spot resolutions" concerning alleged Mexican incursions into American territory. c. Polk's desire to acquire California. d. the desire to gain payment for unpaid damage tort claims by American citizens against the Mexican government for damages to Americans and their property in the Southwest. e. moral indignation expressed by southwestern American expansionists following the deaths of American soldiers at the hands of Mexican crossing the Rio Grande in April 1846.

b. the impulse to satisfy Congressman Abraham Lincoln and similar political allies in Congress to enact the so-called "spot resolutions" concerning alleged Mexican incursions into American territory.

All of the following happened after President John Tyler's veto of a bill to establish a new Bank of the United States except a. an attempt was made in the House of Representatives to impeach him. b. he was expelled from the Whig party. c. all but one member of his cabinet resigned. d. he signed another similar national bank bill providing for a "Fiscal Corporation." e. Tyler also vetoed a Whig-sponsored high-tariff bill.

d. he signed another similar national bank bill providing for a "Fiscal Corporation."

All of the following were reasons why Britain was intensely interested in promoting an independent Republic of Texas except a. British merchants believed that an independent Texas could be an important free-trade area to offset the tariff-walled United States. b. such a republic would check the southward surge of the American colossus, who posed a threat to nearby British possessions in the New World. c. an independent Republic of Texas could provide British abolitionists with the opportunity to free slaves in Texas and stir rebellions by other slaves throughout the South. d. clashes between the independent Republic of Texas and America might create a diversionary opportunity for foreign powers to challenge American supremacy in Latin America and undermine the dormant Monroe Doctrine. e. Texas could become a location for the settlement of undesirable British emigrants.

e. Texas could become a location for the settlement of undesirable British emigrants.

The Spanish Franciscan missionaries treated the Indian inhabitants of California

extremely harshly, as Indian inhabitants of California were required to toil endlessly as poor farmers and herders and often came down with serious, deadly diseases.

In his quest for California, President James K. Polk

first advocated buying the area from Mexico.

Relations between Britain and the United States in the 1830s and 1840s could be characterized as

generally tense, with periods of both violence and peaceful resolution.

When the war with Mexico began, President James K. Polk

hoped to fight a limited war, ending with the conquest of California.

The election of 1844 was notable because

it was fought over the issue of expansionism.

One goal of Mexico in its 1846-1848 war with the United States was to

regain sovereignty over Texas and humiliate the hated yanquis.

Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the

rich soil of the Willamette River Valley.

As a result of the panic of 1837

several states defaulted on their bonds or repudiated them openly.

The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that

slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States.

The nomination of James K. Polk as the Democrats' 1844 presidential candidate was secured by

southern expansionists.

The Wilmot Proviso

symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories.

The primary reason that the British government decided to compromise with the United States on the Oregon Country border was

the British government's belief that the Oregon Country was neither politically nor economically critical to British foreign policy interests.

The largest single addition to American territory was

the Mexican Cession.

President Polk's claim that "American blood [had been shed] on the American soil" referred to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near

the Rio Grande.